Tampa:Muslim Student Tries to Get on Plane With 7" Butcher Knife

Islam in Action ^ | June 17Th, 2009 | Bill Warner

[Islaminaction]

Saudi Arabian Muslim Student Raed Al-Saif at Univ. of Tampa Tries To Get On Plane With 7 inch Butcher Knife in His Carry On Bag, the last name "Al-Saif" is linked to Al-Qaeda.

Fifteen of the nineteen on 9/11 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia they used box cutters and small knives to take over control of the 4 airplanes on 9/11. The United States government determined that al-Qaeda, headed by Osama bin Laden, bore responsibility for the attacks, with the FBI stating "evidence linking al-Qaeda and bin Laden to the attacks of September 11 is clear and irrefutable".

The Government of the United Kingdom reached the same conclusion regarding al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden's culpability for the September 11 attacks.

[ClearCase_guy]

Throw away the key.

[Westbrook]

He must be vying for a vacation home in a warm water paradise, like Bermuda or Palau.

$200,000,000 to the Island of Palau to take care of 17 Mohamhead terrorists from Gitmo.

Undisclosed amount to Bermuda for taking 4 other terrorists.

They get to play in the sun, live large, and enjoy the good life while the rest of us have to work for a living.

Maybe once or twice in our lifetimes will we be able to visit a warm-water paradise for a couple of weeks.

They get to do it permanently at our expense.

Isn’t Obamunism wonderful?

[domenad]

I’m going to be contrary and state that this is probably crap. The guy wasn’t going to hijack the plane, he wasn’t going to stab someone. No one will ever be able to hijack a plane in the US for fifty years thanks to 9/11, and this guy almost certainly knows that.

[La Lydia]

"Raed Alsaif was a Graduate of the Islamic Saudi Academy Alexandria, VA Class of 2003. Sen. Charles E. Schumer questioned whether the Islamic Saudi Academy in Alexandria, Virginia, is another example of radical Islamic madrassas funded by and linked to terrorism here and abroad.

Why was this puke still in our country after his previous arrests? And why is that academy still allowed to operate?

[HighlyOpinionated]

He needed the knife to butter his croissant doncha know.

It’s a test, it is only a test. If it were a real hijacking, the knife would have been hidden where it could not be found.

Or it could be a diversionary tactic. Look this way so that another passenger can sneak by without passing through the metal detector.

God help us.

[Islaminaction]

Well him being caught with the knife is real.

“The knife was concealed between the outside fabric and the expandable pull handles of the bag.

Alsaif told officers a friend had given him the bag, and he was unaware of the contents. But authorities interviewed the friend, who denied owning the bag or giving it to Alsaif.”

[Islaminaction]

Must of been one of the flights with no food service, so he brought his own stuff.

[Islaminaction]

“And why is that academy still allowed to operate?”

Cowardly govt.

[Mr. Jazzy]

Not to question your opinion but just to question your faith in the PROFESSIONAL (union) TSA folks and their unbelievably high hiring standards, are you SURE no one will be able to hijack a US flight for fifty years?

[gathersnomoss]

Testing, One - Two. The knives were just friendly parting gifts. Give Abdul a break, will yah!

This country is now an ongoing issue of Mad Magazine.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Obama will probably send him to a beach resort in Bermuda at taxpayer’s expense.

[MGMSwordsman]

Simply put, WTF is this subhuman trash doing in my country in the first place? That is the real travesty. How can we possibly be that stupid and that suicidal?

[domenad]

Let me be specific - I would lay $100 unreservedly on no US-departing plane being hijacked. Passengers who remember 9/11 will simply assume they are dead, and the tight quarters of an airplane mean that even a pistol-wielding hijacker can be overwhelmed by five or six passengers. After writing that (and now considering the competence of the TSA), let me be even more specific: No attempted hijacking would be successful. I think potential terrorists know this. If they tried anything with a plane, it would be to simply blow it up. I’m sure that makes everyone feel better.

[b4its2late]

Maybe he just wanted to use it to clean under his finger nails?

[dead]

the last name "Al-Saif" is linked to Al-Qaeda.

That's a goofy statement. "Al-everything" is linked to Al-Qaeda.

Except maybe "Al-Bundi"

[Islaminaction]

I agree, I just reposted it the way the author wrote it.

[Godwin1]

Thanks so much. I did not hear or read this important story in my local rag/on the network radio news. It does not fit the Obama “Islam is a religion of peace” line. Without sites like Free Republic,we would learn nothing but what the Obamunists in the media want us to learn. No wonder Obama has appointed an internet czar. The internet, Talk Radio, and the pulpits of rare, brave Christian pastors are the only things between us and the kind of neo-totalitarian ONETHINK that obtains in places like the UK.

[GOPJ]

He must be vying for a vacation home in a warm water paradise, like Bermuda or Palau. $200,000,000 to the Island of Palau to take care of 17 Mohamhead terrorists from Gitmo. Undisclosed amount to Bermuda for taking 4 other terrorists. They get to play in the sun, live large, and enjoy the good life while the rest of us have to work for a living.

If they ever decided to "round up" conservatives - (liberals forget that we are fellow citizens) they won't be putting us on island paradises.

Nope knowing what assh-les liberals are and how much they hate us we'll be in North Korean type work camps with Letterman cracking jokes about our raped children. Ya gotta love the little totalitarian creeps. Hey "liberals", Neuenburg Trials have a way of coming...

[Islaminaction]

Thanks for sharing with your know it all crystal ball. We all feel so much better now.

[Islaminaction]

You are welcome.

[Nachum]

I want to see how Obama’s state dept. deals with this thug.

[Cindy]

http://www2.tbo.com/exposure/ar/125/170/2009/06/16/3989_061609plane.jpeg

http://media.tbo.com/tbo/pdfs/061609alsaifcomplaint.pdf

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http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/jun/16/man-charged-trying-bring-knife-plane-tia/news-breaking/

“Man charged with trying to bring knife onto plane at TIA”

TBO.com

Published: June 16, 2009

SNIPPET: “TAMPA - Federal authorities have charged a 24-year-old man with trying to bring a seven-inch knife aboard a plane at Tampa International Airport.

Raed Abduhl-Rahman Alsaif was arrested June 4 as he tried to board US Airways flight 1077 to Phoenix and Portland, Ore., according to a criminal complaint.”

[Cindy]

Off (Thread) Topic and not related to this thread incident:

http://www.kpho.com/news/19661608/detail.html

“2 Charged After Gun Found On Plane”
Flight 1195 Bound From Philadelphia To Phoenix
Omadelle Nelson
Reporter, KPHO.com

POSTED: 4:00 pm MST June 4, 2009
UPDATED: 5:44 pm MST June 4, 2009

SNIPPET: “PHOENIX — The FBI has charged two men after investigators said Thursday the pair smuggled a gun onto an airplane at Philadelphia International Airport.

Flight 1195, bound for Phoenix, was delayed several hours.

“At this point, you have to wonder, what does get by?” said passenger Tom McDonell, who arrived with the flight at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport.

The more he thinks about what happened, McDonnell said he’s disturbed that a gun got past a security checkpoint and into a Philadelphia airport terminal.

“If the woman didn’t notice anything it would’ve been a very much different situation,” said McDonnell.

U.S. Airways employee Roshid Milledge and passenger Damien Young have been charged with getting a concealed gun onto a departing plane.

Witnesses saw Milledge hand Young a bag at the gate right before he boarded.

Once investigators got wind of the exchange, they stopped the plane and took the passenger into custody.

“It was almost like a non-event when he left the plane, and then we actually taxied back out for 15 minutes and then taxied back in and then everybody then deplaned and searched,” said McDonnell.

Investigators said they found a semi-automatic handgun in Young’s bag.”

[Cindy]

Noting the 2 incidents listed above occurred June 4, 2009.

[Velveeta]

Thanks, Cindy.
These strange incidents seem to be on the increase.

[Cindy]

Yep and very little media coverage.

[Cindy]

Adding to post no. 25:

http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/jun/19/fbi-investigates-attempts-smuggle-weapons-planes/

“FBI investigates attempts to smuggle weapons on planes”

By HOWARD ALTMAN
Published: June 19, 2009

SNIPPET: “The FBI is looking into whether there is any connection between two arrests - one here and one in Philadelphia - of men trying to smuggle weapons onto airplanes.

The arrests both took place June 4. Both planes were bound for Phoenix.

In Tampa, federal authorities charged a 24-year-old man with trying to bring a 7-inch knife aboard a plane at Tampa International Airport.

Raed Abduhl-Rahman Alsaif was arrested June 4 as he tried to board US Airways Flight 1077 to Phoenix and Portland, Ore., according to a criminal complaint.”

SNIPPET: “On the same day In Philadelphia, a passenger and an airline employee were charged with trying to smuggle a Smith & Wesson 9- mm semi-automatic handgun through an employees’ entrance at Philadelphia International Airport. The plan, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Philadelphia, was for Roshid Milledge, 38, of Philadelphia - a US Airways employee - to smuggle the gun into the airport so that it would be available for Damien Young, 29, of Phoenix, aboard US Airways Flight 1195, bound for Phoenix.”